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Who decides what students are capable of?

Tom Barrett
4 min readJun 4, 2021

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Hi, welcome to the 219th edition of the newsletter. How has your week been? What has been on your mind?

Melbourne and Victoria are in COVID lockdown again. My thoughts go out to the educators and students switching back to online — and of course, those still grappling with extended lockdowns in other countries.

In this article I share provocations about assessment, learning and identity, I discovered on Twitter. I share some tweets and my reflections and thinking.

Toddle and Dance

My Prenatal Report Card

This got me wondering about how far back in our lives we are plunged into a system of assessment. I wonder how I scored on my prenatal report card?

There is this delicate balance between capturing evidence of observations to share with parents and…

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Tom Barrett
Tom Barrett

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